Liverpool invested heavily in the summer of 2018, signing Alisson, Naby Keita, Fabinho and Xherdan Shaqiri for around £167million combined.

However, they earned £137million from selling Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona in January 2018 and kept the coffers topped up with the sale of several fringe players, including the below seven for a combined £132.5million in just three years.

Danny Ings

Were it not for terrible luck with injuries, Ings’ Liverpool career may have turned out very differently.

Sadly, serious injuries to both knees ended effectively ended his hopes of establishing himself at Anfield after he had made a promising start to life on Merseyside.

After spending last season on loan at Southampton, the transfer was made permanent for £18million plus a further £2million in add-ons.

He almost came back to haunt the Reds, scoring off the bench against Klopp’s men last month, only for Liverpool to run out 2-1 winners at St Mary’s.

Dominic Solanke

Solanke only spent 18 months at Liverpool having joined from Chelsea in the summer of 2017 for an undisclosed fee that took a year to be agreed. Chelsea had originally wanted £10million, with the Reds offering £3million.

The striker made five starts and 16 substitute appearances in his first season at Anfield, scoring once, but he did not make a single appearance in any competition in the first half of 2018-19.

Yet, somehow, after a loan move to Crystal Palace fell through due to concerns over his fitness, Liverpool managed to negotiate a £19million deal to sell him to Bournemouth, sending another fringe player in Nathaniel Clyne to the south coast on loan at the same time.

Danny Ward

The Solanke fee certainly raised some eyebrows, but Liverpool’s negotiators were on even better form when selling Danny Ward to Leicester City in July 2018.

The goalkeeper joined Liverpool as an 18-year-old from Wrexham in January 2012 but made only three appearances in five and a half years at Anfield and fell to fourth choice following the arrival of Alisson Becker from Roma.

Yet despite that, and the fact that Leicester were only signing him as back up to Kasper Schmeichel, they agreed to pay £12.5million. He is yet to appear for the Foxes in the Premier League.

Mamadou Sakho

Sakho made 80 appearances for Liverpool between 2013 and 2016, but the centre-back was sent home from the pre-season tour of the United States ahead of the 2016-17 season for three cases of indiscipline.

He was subsequently dropped from the first-team squad and had not made a single appearance in any competition when he was loaned to Crystal Palace in January 2017.

Thankfully, Sakho impressed enough at Selhurst Park that the Eagles eventually agreed to pay £26million on transfer deadline day that summer as the Reds initially held out for £30million for a player they had absolutely no intention of using.

Christian Benteke

Unlike the other players on this list, Liverpool actually sold Benteke at a loss, with Palace paying a club-record £27million just a year after he had joined the Reds for £32.5million from Aston Villa.

Nevertheless, the deal represented good value for the Merseysiders on a player that didn’t fit into Klopp’s style of play.

The Belgian had been signed by Klopp’s predecessor, Brendan Rodgers, and started Liverpool’s first six Premier League games, but he made only eight more starts under Klopp before being quickly ushered out of the door in a transfer that included a further £5million in potential add-ons.

Jordon Ibe

Bournemouth might want to stop buying players from Liverpool.

They paid a club-record £15million to sign another young forward from the Reds in Ibe in July 2016, but he has not enjoyed anywhere near as much success at Dean Court as would have been hoped.

Ibe started the first 11 Premier League games of the season, but Eddie Howe publicly called him out for a lack of consistency in November, and the winger started only twice more after that.

He had something of a revival in 2017-18, starting 22 games in the Premier League and scoring his first two goals for the club, but the 23-year-old fell back out of favour in 2018-19, making only nine league starts.

Let’s not even start talking about Brad Smith.

Joe Allen

Another Rodgers signing, Allen was a relatively popular figure during his four years at Liverpool but was rarely used following the arrival of Klopp, making only eight Premier League starts in 2015-16.

However, his stock was still high enough that Stoke City were willing to pay £13million for him in July 2016.

That represented a £2million loss for Liverpool but was still good business considering he had entered the final 12 months of his contract at Anfield.